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When Is the Champions League Draw? Start Time and Confirmed Pots Revealed After Tense Qualifying

UEFA will set each club’s eight league-phase opponents as all 36 teams are confirmed and the new format moves toward September matches.

  • The UEFA Champions League draw takes place today, Thursday, August 27, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, where 36 qualified clubs will discover their opponents for the 2026/27 league phase.
  • UEFA seeded the 36 participating clubs into four pots based on five-year performance, with each team set to play eight matches against eight different opponents, including two clubs from each pot.
  • Pot 1 features two-time defending European champions Paris Saint-Germain alongside last year's finalist Arsenal, while three-time winners Manchester United headline Pot 2 as they return after a two-year absence.
  • Following Wednesday's final play-off round, Fenerbahce, Viking, AEK Athens, and Slovan Bratislava secured the last league-phase spots, joining debutantes Sabah, LASK, and Como in the lower seeding pots.
  • Competition begins September 8 with Matchday 1, and the league phase concludes January 27, 2027, leading to knockout stages and the final at Madrid's Estadio Metropolitano on June 5, 2027.
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In Monaco the draw of the Champions League season 2026/27 takes place. Who will the four German participants meet? The live ticker.

·Syke, Germany
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The draw of the League phase of the Champions League takes place today (18 o'clock). Who transfers the event, how the pots were divided and when the games take place.

·Vienna, Austria
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The 36 teams that will participate in the final phase of the highest European competition have already been decided.

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The last clubs have secured their ticket for the Champions League 2026/27. This completes the drawpots for the league phase. Today, Thursday, everything is looking for Monte Carlo.

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ESPN broke the news in United States on Thursday, August 27, 2026.
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